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PROVERBIUM SENIORUM — Quotations that have aged well

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Posted on November 23, 2017November 23, 2017

“There is nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC

Posted on November 9, 2017November 9, 2017

“Shallowness is natural; conceit comes with education.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher, 106–43 BC

Posted on September 2, 2017September 2, 2017

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”—Hippocrates, Greek physician & Father of Western Medicine, 460-370 BC

Posted on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017

“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?”—Thornton Wilder, American playwright & novelist, 1897-1975

Posted on July 21, 2017July 21, 2017

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on July 12, 2017July 12, 2017

“No falsehood lingers on into old age.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 5th century BC

Posted on July 5, 2017July 5, 2017

“Never despair.”—Horace, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on June 24, 2017June 24, 2017

“Well done is quickly done.”—Augustus Caesar, Roman emperor, 63 BC — 14 AD

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